Publishing should be more about culture than book sales

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The Conversation: Publishing should be more about culture than book sales

"Publishing is viewed as a business not as a cultural activity. This perception of publishing as a business, even a creative one, means that the question of book sales dominates our conversations about it, rather than questions around how readers use books and book culture to develop a sense of the society in which they live and/or a sense of themselves."